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    International applicants

    colleges, including MIT. This is a quick overview to help you understand how ... how to apply to MIT. When to apply Most U.S. students apply to MIT at ... we continue to welcome them today. If you are an international student
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Our selection process

    How it works After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel ... summaries, along with your entire application, will then go to the selection ... region to compare you against each other; each applicant stands on their
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    February Updates & Notes Form

    . Midyear grades Please be sure to get your official midyear grades from your college counselor to complete the February Updates & Notes Form ... -trimester grades. Students who have already graduated simply select the "I'm not
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    What we look for

    fail—and who know how to build a support system to keep them afloat ... key components: Alignment with MIT's mission MIT’s mission is to use science, technology, and other areas of scholarship to make the world better
  • Policies

    , culture, and socio-economic background. How much diversity is necessary to ... harassment, including how to report or file a complaint of sex discrimination, how to report or file a formal complaint of sexual harassment, and how
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    WISE 2025

    campus community by working with and getting to know current students and ... /department at MIT interest you most? How does this major/department contribute to ... ; please draft your responses on a separate page or document. How to apply in
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    College access & advising programs

    application process, learning how to tell your story, and finding a school where ... to apply to, get admitted to, and receive adequate financial aid. Quest ... The process of applying to college isn’t always straightforward
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    About MIT Admissions

    anyone should be able to understand how to apply to MIT, be able to ... to what they imagine might get them into MIT, and we try to remind them ... and selection of all undergraduate applicants to the Institute
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Undergraduate research

     credit. How to UROP You may apply for advertised UROP positions or propose your ... you a point of entry to begin work that can last a lifetime. Hands ... you that maybe get your feet under you first. First-year UROPs are often
  • Discover / The MIT education

    The first year

    ) interests in order to develop their plans for further study. Before we get to ... design principles and educational theory in order to understand how and why ... by choosing among a variety of ways to complete core subjects and
  • Help / Contact

    Via email

    , then we'll sort out who needs to respond and [annotation note="We get ... emails tend to spike especially around the application deadlines, so please be patient if we don't respond in realtime."] get back to you as
  • Discover / About MIT

    Inventions & innovations

    resources to help them get started on entrepreneurial projects of their own ... discoveries of basic research to products and infrastructure used by ordinary ...  associated with MIT, including everything from the World Wide Web to Technicolor
  • Discover / Life and culture

    The MIT community

    Professor Emeritus Jay Keyser once observed that "MIT is hard to get into, and even harder to leave."[/intro] The people at MIT The best asset of MIT ... try to put together the best team of students to go through MIT together
  • Online info sessions

    [intro]There are many ways to get to know us, right from the comfort of your own home![/intro] Join us for an online session Sign up to see ... together a little virtual-MIT-choose your own-adventure experience to get you
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Returning students

    in getting to know you. This includes the secondary school materials ... Secondary school materials Some students apply to us after an ... experiences of students returning to higher education. At the same time, we
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    Athletics & recreation

    addition to a Division I crew program. MIT is highly competitive within its NEWMAC conference. It is possible to be a student and athlete at MIT ... school, MIT does not award athletic scholarships, nor do coaches get to
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    For parents

    enough to take the social and intellectual risks that make college really worthwhile. In order to best understand how this process works, we encourage you to review information we've posted about the first-year application
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    Via mail

    find our mailing address below. We'll get back to you much faster via ... -related documents to us for some reason—or if you would like to mail us something not related to an application—you can send it to: Massachusetts Institute of
  • Student life at MIT

    likely get 4,500 unique answers from each of our undergrads as to what a ... (and often do) speak at length about our students, but why not get to ... freely from lectures to labs, from dance floors to darkrooms, from study